Data Scientist | $100/hr Remote | Mercor

At Crossing Hurdles, we work as a referral partner. We refer candidates to Mercor that collaborates with world's leading AI research labs to build and train cutting-edge AI models.

Organization: Mercor

Position: Data Scientist

Referral partner: Crossing Hurdles

Type: Hourly Contract

Compensation: $60-$100/hour

Location: Remote

Duration: Approximately 2 months (extension feasible)

Commitment: 10-40 hours per week, fully asynchronous

Role Responsibilities

• Focus on hands‐on data science tasks, such as designing experiments
• Gathering and pre-processing data
• Building and evaluating models, and collaborating closely with engineering teams to deploy production‐ready solutions
• Ensure output consistency and quality through collaboration with peers and feedback from reviewers

Ideal Qualifications

• Have strong professional experience in data science or applied analytics.
• Skilled in Python and Jupyter notebooks.
• Have experience using libraries including numpy, pandas, scipy, sympy, scikit-learn, torch, tensorflow.
• Have a strong background in one or more of the following areas: exploratory data analysis and statistical inference, machine learning workflows and model evaluation, feature engineering/data preprocessing/data wrangling, or A/B testing/experimentation/causal inference.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume (15 min)
• Submit form